Bruno Frey and Susanne Neckermann (Zurich): Awards: A Disregarded Source of Motivation. From TED, Sendhil Mullainathan on solving social problems with a nudge. From The Village Voice, an article on the life and death of Alan Carton, 23, the RIAA-defying creator of @diditleak. How not to be an atheist: A review of Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being by Brian Rotman and Bioethics in the Age of New Media by Joanna Zylinska. An ancient Amazon civilisation is laid bare by felled forest. Where politics and democracy fail, nature eventually wins, and a number of tyrants and world leaders are currently sick; Mike Deri Smith surveys and ranks the illest. Shuttles for Sale: Three orbiters in search of good homes — not cheap. A review of When Is Discrimination Wrong? by Deborah Hellman. A review of The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too by James Galbraith. From the Mises Institute, Jeffrey Tucker on Mark Twain's radical liberalism. Hannah Frank on Deconstructing Disney: The following five books are for the more cynical and knowing among us — for those who find the ubiquity of the Disney empire as inescapable as the flypaper that besets Mickey's dog in "Playful Pluto". A review of The Earl and His Butler in Constantinople: The Secret Diary of an English Servant Among the Ottomans by Nigel Webb. A review of The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain by Guy Ortolano (and a response). Were the Maya noble savages? Thomas Kluyver investigates.
